Maurice Ravel Quotes
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
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I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.
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I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.
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When I went into a start-up in tech, I knew I could always go back to a law firm.
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But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
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As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I've dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.'
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
